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Just hours after his first nominee withdrew, President-elect Donald Trump announced a new choice for attorney general, Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and one of the lawyers on Trump’s legal team in his first impeachment trial.…
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The U.S. Treasury Department announced Thursday a new set of sanctions targeting Russia’s financial sector and its ability to fund its war with Ukraine, hitting Gazprombank as well as many other internationally connected financial…
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois — The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned actor Jussie Smollett's conviction on charges that he staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in downtown Chicago in 2019 and lied to police. The…
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NEW YORK — Nick Pickles, the former head of global affairs at Elon Musk's social media platform X, is joining forces with one of Musk's rivals, his fellow OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman. Pickles, who resigned from X in September, told Reuters…
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new Delhi, india — One of Asia's richest men, Indian tycoon Gautam Adani, is again in the spotlight. His companies' stocks plunged up to 20% in value Thursday after he was indicted by U.S. prosecutors on charges that he duped investors in a…
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VIENTIANE, LAOS — Southeast Asian defense chiefs met Thursday with their counterparts from China, the United States and other nations in Laos for security talks, which come as Beijing's increasingly assertive stance in its claim to most of…
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A deadly major storm hit California and the U.S. Pacific Northwest late Tuesday and into Wednesday with strong winds and heavy rains. At least two people were killed by falling trees in Seattle-area cities. As many as 500,000 power outages…
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says on his Truth Social account that his pick for border czar “will be in charge of all Deportations of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin.” VOA’s Veronica Villafañe reports on Trump’s pick,Tom…
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U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade. The…
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President Joe Biden’s top Mideast envoy said Wednesday he’s hopeful about negotiations with Hezbollah to bring the conflict along Israel’s northern border to an end, although fighting continues, and an end appears nowhere in sight in Gaza.…
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